Re: California law CA AB1043

On Thu, Feb 26, 2026 at 4:12 PM Lucas Holt <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> California is requiring age verification checks for account creation at
> the OS level with a signal API to provide information to applications in
> 2027.  They explicitly call out individual developers or companies with
> fines of 2500 dollars per child affected.
>
> I wondered if anyone has started looking into this on the FreeBSD side.
> The way I read this, we would need to implement changes when creating
> accounts, provide a mechanism to check from apps (library), and provide
> support within package managers to filter apps?  Then browsers would
> need to implement this and call the respective OS APIs for age
> verification for desktop use.
>
> It seems like it makes sense for multiple *NIX systems to implement a
> similar mechanism across platforms.
>
> The paragraph near the bottom seems to indicate that it wouldn't apply
> to server use since indirect signals aren't required to be honored.
>
> For reference:
>
> https://legiscan.com/CA/text/AB1043/id/3269704

How about refusing to bend to bureaucratic tyranny and respond with
ban from the Open-Source side in such cases right from start? Give
them finger and they will take the whole hand next.. unless it's the
middle finger and blessing to build their communist utopia on their
own. They can steal what is free but they cannot force us to work for
them for free. Whole Open-Source community should stand united and
strong against this nonsense.

They for sure know reaction of the free crowd, and they have already
planned some sort of business behind this. We are their asset, and our
consent. Do not consent.

Let thinking people leave and see what happens next. Socialism turns
communism when there is no more other people money and there is no
food left. We had that in Eastern Europe, but some people need to feel
on their own four letters.

Who is John Galt?

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